Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from the UAE and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Trumans Water to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
A Certain Ratio,
Bobby Byrd,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minnie Riperton,
The Buckinghams,
Iggy Pop,
Unwound,
Rotary Connection,
the Human League,
Index,
Grey Daturas,
Dawn Penn,
Rufus Thomas,
The Durutti Column,
ABC,
Yaz,
The Dead C,
Tubeway Army,
The Techniques,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Gories,
Albert Ayler,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Skarface,
Gang of Four,
Silicon Teens,
Icehouse,
Eurythmics,
Kaleidoscope,
Average White Band,
New Order,
The Shadows of Knight,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tears for Fears,
Joey Negro,
Glenn Branca,
Warsaw,
a-ha,
David Axelrod,
Bauhaus,
H. Thieme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Visage,
Amon Düül,
Marmalade,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jandek,
Janne Schatter,
Colin Newman,
Sixth Finger,
Judy Mowatt,
Dark Day,
Joyce Sims,
Supertramp,
MDC,
DNA,
Peter & Gordon,
B.T. Express,
Trumans Water,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.